Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

No question is ever settled until it is settled right.

Ingrid Bergman

It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

Kevin Spacey

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

Jimmy Carter

I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

Jimmy Carter

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

Jimmy Carter

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

Jimmy Carter

Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.

Jimmy Carter

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

John C. Reilly

Oftentimes, a funny situation is funny because it's uncomfortable or weird. The most memorable stories, or the stuff that you repeat to your friends, it's not like, "Oh, I had a pleasant day, nothing happened on the bus today." It's when strange things happen, when you become uncomfortable or knocked out of your own reality, those are the things that are interesting.

Emile Hirsch

I remember when I saw 'The Matrix' when I was 13, I saw it in the theaters, and I was so blown away by it. It was one of the most memorable experiences I definitely ever had in the theater.

Herodotus

The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.

Henry Ward Beecher

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Henry James

I had an excellent repast - the best repast possible - which consisted simply of boiled eggs and bread and butter. It was the quality of these simple ingredients that made the occasion memorable. The eggs were so good that I am ashamed to say how many of them I consumed ....It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can be reasonably expected of it.

Narciso Rodriguez

No scent is more sensual or more memorable to me than musk.

Og Mandino

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles

Oscar de la Renta

I don't really know how to do casual clothes

Oscar de la Renta

Every season I am inspired by women.

Mary Augusta Ward

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

Michael Jordan

My most memorable dunk, that I think about very, very often, is the Patrick Ewing dunk.

John Adams

My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth year from its birth, of the independence of the United States: a memorable epoch in the annals of the human race, destined in future history to form the brightest or the blackest page, according to the use or the abuse of those political institutions by which they shall, in time to come, be shaped by the human mind.

John McCain

It's always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone.

John Irving

In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.

Joan Rivers

I have a wonderful psychiatrist that I see maybe once a year, because I don't need it. It all comes out onstage.

Joan Rivers

Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I'm gonna be Meryl Streep Rivers.

Joan Rivers

I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.

Joan Rivers

Life is very tough. If you don't laugh, it's tough.

Joan Rivers

I've had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.

Garrison Keillor

Vodka is tasteless going down, but it is memorable coming up.

Lucy Larcom

I don't own an inch of land, but all I see is mine.

John Lasseter

It [moviemaking] is about entertaining audiences with great characters and great stories, you want to make people laugh, you want to make people cry, you want to have great music that is memorable. You want a movie that, as soon as it's over, you want to watch it again, just like that. That's what it is, whether it's live-action, animation, hand drawn, computer, special effects, puppet animation, it doesn't matter. That's the goal of a filmmaker.

If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

Joshua Foer

Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.

Leland Stanford

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.